The symposium
“Afrodescendants: Fifteen Years after Santiago.
Achievements and Challenges” was held on
December 4 and 5, 2015, in the city of Boston,
USA.
The Afro-Latin American
Research Institute at Harvard’s Hutchins Center
for African & African American Research
organized the symposium at Harvard University in
collaboration with the University of Cartagena
(Colombia) and with co-sponsorship from the Ford
Foundation and the David Rockefeller Center for
Latin American Studies at Harvard University.
The purpose of the event was
to reflect on the antiracist agenda formulated
in Santiago, Chile, in 2000, at the Latin
American Regional Conference held in preparation
for the World Conference against Racism, Racial
Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related
Intolerance.
Activists and government
representatives from several of the region's
countries attended the symposium, as did
representatives of the Ford Foundation, the
Inter-American Development Bank, the World Bank,
the Economic Commission for Latin America and
the Caribbean, the United Nations Committee on
the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, and
the Organization of American States.
Owing to its work on
Afrodescendant issues at the Organization of
American States, the Department of International
Law was invited to take part in the panel
discussions “Normative, Political, Economic and
Social Changes Fifteen Years after Santiago” and
“Policies of Governmental, Intergovernmental and
Donor Agencies.”
The Department of
International Law has been working on issues
concerning people of African descent since 2008,
holding different types of activities to draw
attention to Afrodescendants in the context of
the inter-American system and enable them to
participate more effectively in its work.
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